forestsofpine

I have to confess that the 1800 artists wasn't 100% organic - I signed up for a new last.fm account this year after not using my old one since 2012 and I set a goal of getting to 1,000 artists before Dec 31 to reflect my music taste more fully, so I was hitting shuffle on my liked songs playlist more often than I do normally just to increase my count. But that said, all of them were either artists with songs that I like enough to have saved, or that I was trying out of genuine curiosity after seeing a recommendation or exploring a playlist that interested me. I have pretty diverse taste even when I'm in these phases where I'm listening mostly to one genre, and I love finding new music!

ONEWE's vocals are SO BEAUTIFUL. It was truly love at first listen for me. "Rain To Be" was one of those songs where I could tell in the first five seconds that I was going to like it, and that was even before the vocals kicked in and I ascended to heaven. 😆

I have listened to a few Xdinary Heroes songs and liked them, so they're on my list to explore more. If you have any particular favorites of their songs, I'd love to hear them!

"She loves me, she loves me not" was one of my favorites from the Guilty EP, too! Honestly, most of both the "Guilty" and "Eternal" EPs ended up in my top 100 songs, as did "Bones", "Want", and a bunch of songs from the NGDA albums. If you count the SHINee songs, Taemin was responsible for more than a quarter of my list.

Ooo, I will definitely check out that Youtube channel! SHINee has a few concert versions that I prefer to the album version ("Stranger" from SHINee World IV, for example) and ATEEZ are such good live performers that I bet some of theirs would be the same. I can now say from personal experience that "Guerilla" with fan chants is life-changing, for one 🤩